They are nothing of the sort.

They are, at most, and even this is overly generous, someone commissioning a "fake artist" (AI) to make something for them

Just because a few techy or aware people use Kagi (or another alternative), is still a drop in the bucket of overall search engine choice

Google search is still widely dominant, as much as we might not want it to be.

I have found some hardware seems to have weird issues with drives of a certain size (I tried using a 256GB external SSD and have encountered a laptop that will not boot from it, and will only boot from USB storage if it's like 32GB or lower or something weird like that). But that appears to be a particular quirk of that laptop and nothing to do with Ventoy in particular.

Curious if quercetin(+alcohol, specifically in the forms found in those beverages) in-fact is a culprit, since cider also has quercetin in it.

I pay for YT Premium because right now it's worth it- it and Twitch (I use Turbo) are both essentially my only video entertainment (instead of paying far more for cable or something- I don't watch regular TV shows or movies anyway).

I would rather a service cease to exist, require a subscription, than view ads. My attention is not for sale to the lowest bidder.

Yes, I understand that some of what survives on the web today is because it has been ad supported- and that it's one way we have democratized / made content available to the masses, including those that can't afford to pay- I just think we'd find another way if ads went away and it's sad that advertising ever was allowed to have the foothold it has today and become the industry it is. Its very existence is repugnant.

They're going to have to screw over creators bad enough for creators to move elsewhere before there's any remotely significant change in critical mass

I think whether or not people always encounter it "feeling slow" is a different concern as to whether or not 8GB of RAM should ever even be offered by Apple on a system that will for sure eventually swap to disk for users. Adding Apple's huge margins on RAM upgrades on top of this just makes it even more disgusting... they should start their models at a higher baseline- it costs them next to nothing (8GB RAM vs 16GB RAM is not a cost-to-Apple issue, it's an extremely cheap component), but then of course they can't squeeze customers for ludicrous amounts of upsell margins (their cost-to-consumer RAM upgrade margins are absolutely appalling)

Selling suboptimal hardware configurations might be a good business decision but I wish our standards weren't so low for companies, especially ones selling $1600 machines with 2013-amounts of RAM in them

But over time I've come to realize that is only one very specific form of 'homeschooling' that is nothing like other forms

User agency should be prioritized over all other concerns.

and it seems to be working fine?

DisplayLink Article: https://support.displaylink.com/knowledgebase/articles/73861...

Direct whitepaper link (warning: PDF): http://www.emcesd.com/pdf/eos93.pdf - if people prefer to search themselves and not use my direct PDF link - it is entitled "A New Type of Furniture ESD and Its Implications" by Douglas C. Smith, from 1993

I'll come back later when at home and post the rules I currently use as I've had to manually block other things (new carousels showing up in recommended, etc)

A DisplayLink KB article even mentions it (and the associated white paper about the issue), stating:

Surprisingly, we have also seen this issue connected to gas lift office chairs. When people stand or sit on gas lift chairs, they can generate an EMI spike which is picked up on the video cables, causing a loss of sync. If you have users complaining about displays randomly flickering it could actually be connected to people sitting on gas lift chairs. Again swapping video cables, especially for ones with magnetic ferrite ring on the cable, can eliminate this problem. There is even a white paper about this issue.